A Second Challenge Coin for NYPD’s Sgt. Buddy Murnane

The Island’s City Council members — Debi Rose, James Oddo and Vincent Ignizio — applaud as the City Council honors Detective Sgt. “Buddy” Murnane for his 37 years of service with the NYPD without taking a single sick day (Staten Island Advance/William Alatriste)

Back in November 2015, we reported on a challenge coin that was issued to honor Sgt. Buddy Murnane of the New York Police Department. Murnane passed away from a heart attack in March 2015, a month shy of his mandatory retirement. He had never taken a sick day in his 40 plus years of service to the NYPD. You can read about that challenge coin HERE.

We have now come across a second challenge coin with a similar design to also remember Sgt. Murnane. This coin can also double as a bottle opener.

OBVERSE: [Holed as made] N (star) Y (star) P (star) D / SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION / (silhouette of a right-facing Sherlock Holmes, wearing a deerstalker and holding a magnifying glass, upon a background of the U.S. flag, with the NYPD’s Detective Bureau logo in the foreground) / MAJOR CASE SQUAD / GATOR BASE [holed as made for bottle-opener]

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[…] UPDATE 6/4/2016 – A second Sherlockian-themed challenge coin was also issued to honor Sgt. Murnane. Similar design, but the second coin can also be used as a bottle opener. Read the details HERE. […]